Backup

Well, it was a very boring weekend. There is so little to report. Friday evening The week was quite cruisy. I had just enough to do but nothing too overwhelming. That almost never happened. By Friday night though, I had had enough of being at work, so after I put some finishing touch to what I was working on during the day, I was happy to leave work at about 6 pm. Iain and Ryan weren't coming to movie night, so there was only Jake, Sam, and me. Sam was running late too, so after getting our movie tickets, Jake and I went to Grill'd for dinner. Sam finally turned up when we were just about to finish dinner, so the three of us went to visit a few shops. We saw The Visit, which was a M Night Shayamalan movie. Naturally, I was expecting some kind of twist at the end of the movie, except that I already guessed what that twist might be a third of the way into the movie. As usual, the movie was quite stylised and spent a lot of time building atmosphere, so it felt almost too...

The weekend was relatively uneventful. In fact, the whole work week was unremarkable by any standard. I just hope it is not the calm before the storm. The only event of note was that one of my team member's husband passed away from cancer. He had been seriously ill since last Christmas. Because of the diagnosis, J had had to look after her husband full-time at home and couldn't come to work. We basically left the position open for her and hired someone temporary to fill her place. Now that her husband has finally passed away, I would expect that she would want to come back to work soon (I think it would be healthy for her to do so since she has been living in limbo for the past 9 months), which was good timing - I have just about had enough of the temp - she is weird. She gushes over everything and says things like, "Thanks for putting up with my incompetence", which gets very overbearing very quickly. She is constantly sick and when she got back after a few days le...